Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moynihan went to Buffalo to address some Harvard alumni. His friend of 25 years, Story Zartman, who was assistant counsel to Kodak, induced him to come to nearby Rochester...
...Marines and had lost 30 jobs. That was ten years ago. This month Joe Sorrentino, now 30, was valedictorian of Harvard Law School. "It has been a long journey to this honor," he told the commencement audience, in what was almost certainly the year's most moving graduation address, "and not what social scientists would have predicted...
...handy with his fists. A veteran of more than 100 rumbles, Joe was put on probation by a juvenile court after one particularly bloody street fight. "When I was in my first year, I failed out of Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn," he said in his address. "Not long after, I enrolled in Bay Ridge High School at night. I failed there also. I tried a third time at Bay Ridge, but could not last the term. Then I attended Washington Irving at night, and again could not finish...
...briefly with a Wall Street firm-as a messenger. At a shoe factory, his job was so lowly that "even the office girls wanted me to address them by their last names." He even worked for 20th Century-Fox, where he sent complimentary tickets for premières to dignitaries. "I now would like to apologize to former Mayor Wagner," said Joe, "whose ticket I gave to my grandmother...
...Harvard Law's valedictorian, Joe Sorrentino has received several offers to work for major U.S. law firms. Instead, he wants to serve a term as an assistant U.S. or state attorney in California. Concluding his valedictory address, Joe said: "Do not look for love, tragedy or trauma to explain this change. It was simply resolution from within"-and, he added, proof that "in America such things are possible." As he told a TIME correspondent last week, while studying for the California bar exam: "Many people say the U.S. system is a fraud. But this country is fair and generous...